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The Diamond Age

With the way Bud’s cybernetic enhancements are described, they remind me a lot of Shadowrun, which is a tabletop rpg, set in a cyberpunk-fantasy future, where there are a variety of odd and strange cybernetics. There are two types of cybernetics, robotic and biological cybernetics, robotic cybernetics are the types you see in the movies, where it’s made of metal and have electricity in it. They can also do a lot of stuff, like turn into guns, or have mini computers in them. The Skull gun is obviously one of these types of cybernetics, and there are all sorts of weird and goofy stuff in shadowrun like this, like the eye gun, or the nail blades. The other type is biological, which is improving your biological structure, to become stronger, faster, have better immune systems etc. This is also shown in the beginning with bud’s implants to become stronger without doing anything, having peaked muscle conditions. These type of stuff reminds me a lot of Shadowrun, let’s hope it stays that way...
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Terminator 3

In The Terminator 3 Judgment Day John Connor, along with the Terminator are on the run from a new type of Terminator called the T-X, which is a terminator designed to hunt and kill rogue terminators. Obviously this terminator needs to be faster and stronger than any of the previous ones, the pure solid t-800, and the liquid - like t-1000. So how do you create a machine that’s better than both of them, while still a machine, well, you turn it into a gaseous form… just kidding, you combine their strongest aspects, while taking away their weaknesses. The T-X is a solid machine, with a liquid overlay, essentially combining both of the terminators form the last two movies. For proof of this, you just need to look carefully in the movie, to be specific the scene where the T-X copies the form of Kate’s fiance, when she turns back it’s liquidy, like the t-1000, but in some scenes she has a physical form, like in the end scene where she dies.
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Technology in the Dystopian Novel

One of the things they talk about in the article is a technophile, someone who loves technology, vs a technophobe, someone who fears technology. Should technology be feared though, should we stop it, or let it grow? Personally, I’ve always been one who seeks the advancement of technology, rather than avoid it. Without the advancements of technology we would’ve never gone to the moon, we would’ve never found cures, or vaccines for various diseases, or invented the cellphone. Technology is what allows use to help and communicate from a long distance quickly, but it can also be harmful. People use them as weapons to kill, or use them to spy on other people. In my opinion though, technology that's used to harm is just a step up from the last piece of technology, a sword does the same thing as a gun, just more effective. Technology should not be feared, but appreciated.
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Divergent pt. 1

In the Divergent series, there is the issue of society being separated, and people having to be a part of one faction, and nothing else. This is very accurate in society today, especially with technology, to some people, you are either an Apple user, or a PC user, there’s no inbetween. There’s even a lot of disconnect within the video game community with people separating themselves between Consoles, genres, even games themselves. Society has always been one to separate themselves, but with the advancement of technology, and competition between companies, people are becoming more and more separate because they think you have to choose one side and dislike anyone on the other side.
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Terminator 2

In T2 one of the things they try to make clear is how the Terminator has been more of a father figure (and maybe better parent) to John Connor than anyone else has, but the Terminator has also learned a lot from John as well. The Terminator is a sentient being that thinks on its own and learns from its interactions with John, even learning what emotions are at the end, which shows how sentience works. People believe that robots are just machines that either obey or kill us, but the way sentience works is that they learn, and eventually grow feelings, and can even learn not to kill. It’s the same with humans actually, yes we kill each other for territory, money, whatever, but there are a lot of people who would rather help others, or protect them, we are like this because we learn to help, and that is what the Terminator did, he learned.
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Termination or Transformation

One of the things the article talked about is jobs being replaced by machines, and the fear that everyone is going to lose their job because of robots. Here’s the thing, robots are not going to take over everyone’s job, they may even create more jobs. First, there are people who need to manage the robots to see they are doing things correctly, next there are people who need to repair the robots. There are also people who need to build, and program the robots themselves. People are afraid that a machine will take their job, but machines can actually help create more jobs as well, maybe even ones with less risks to it.
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What are the Horners in the book "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil"

In the book The brief and Frightening Reign of Phil one question flew into my mind, what are the Horners? While this question may not pertain to technology, I think it does because I believe that they are cyborgs. The Horners are part robotic, and part organic, and there is some proof of that.There has been lots of mention of doing stuff organic people do, like giving birth, and eating, but some strange stuff as well, like how some people are shaped like the letter C, or Phil losing his brain every once in a while and still surviving. It’s some of these things that questions, what are they, and the answer is cyborgs, but what is the organic part, is it human, or something else? I don’t think they are human, or even a single race of people, I think they are a collection of different races that got stuck on this planet, which will explain the size difference of the two different countries.
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